Restored Spelling-OGD - by John Reilly [JR]
with comments by Steve Bett [SB]  OGD Positional Vowels Apr.99 chart

In the curent (Jan. 18) Nu Republik magazeen, thair is a revue bye Peter Philips ov the nu book by Katherine Bergeron, "Decadent Enchantments: Thr Revival of Gregorian Chant at Solesmes." For sum yeers now, the PA sistems in the clasicl sections ov miuzik stors hav been filled witth the caterwalling ov monks. Gregorian chant has been witth uss for a wyl (depending on how U defyn it, frum 1500 to 1000 yeers), but the particiuler form in wich we ar lykly tu heer it today reelly daits frum the midl ov the 19th sentiury, wen the Benedicteens at Solesmes in Franss set out tu revyv and codifye the French tradition ov literjicl miuzik that had been allmoast wyped out by the Revoluetion. Thiss efort, and its popiuler suxess, may hav sum bairing on the reform ov Inglish speling.

Thair is notthing foany about the miuzik ov Solesmes. The fraizing and the notaition and the arrainjment ar all the rezult of cairful scolership, baised for the moast part on prymary sorses. The oanly objection tu it is that it is not itself medievl. As the miuzicolojist Peter Wagner noated in 1907:

"The nuely employed statisticl investigaition ov the mateeriels ov the reedings for individiul noats or grueps...together...produess melodies wich hav never existed in that form."

Thiss wood be a desysiv objection if the Solesmes project had been piurly antiquairian. However, the aims ov the Benediceen wer practicl: thay wanted a body ov miuzik that cood be taut and sung evry day in thair houses. Thay allso wanted a form that, in sum senss, wos "ainshent," continiuoss witth the tradition. The Solesmes revyvl wos boatth. That is wye it becaim the literjicl standerd in the Catthlik Cherch erly in the 20th sentiury, and it is a larj part ov the reezon wye it has becum hybrow pop miuzik at the sentiuryies end.

Restoration Project

A reformed speling ov Inglish myt meet witth a similer reseption. As John G or Chris pointed out a wyl bak, Cut Spelling often simply reprodueses Midl Inglish forms. Eaven wen respelings ar novl, the sceems that produess them ar jeneraly just reaserting prinsipels that wer part ov Inglish ortthografy frum its inseption, but that becaim obsciured in erly modern tyms.

I put it to the gruep, then, that we ar engaijed neether in simplifying Inglish speling, nor in reforming it, but it reterning tu its traditionl structiur. Wyl thiss dus not meen simply reproduesing spelings today that existed in former tyms, it dus meen that we ar in a very reel senss restoring the riten langwej tu its tru form.

Restored English Spelling is a work in progress.  The vowel table is complete but not immutable.  In fact it may be modified next week.  The scheme raises as many questions as it resolves.  The goal is to get as close to TO as possible while retaining full predictability. The table below is not the last one that will be developed but it provides the latest thinking on how to design this orthography.

GOALS and OBJECTIVES for RES

1.  Fully predictable: RES is absolutely unambiguous for readers and reasonably unambiguous for spellers.
2.  Positional - up to four spellings per sound depending on the position in a syllable.
3.  Takes full advantage of the relationship between checked and free vowels in English speech.
4.  OGD uses phonetic devises that, with one exception, exist in TO.  Real spelling patterns.
5.  Initially, the intent was to eliminate the magic E even if it happened to be the most frequent spelling pattern.
6.  Concessions have been made bringing RES closer to New Spelling with respect to ie and ue phonograms
     which had been y and iu.  Attempts are underway to bring it closer to TECNO.
 

RES is positional, just lyk TO.  The diferenss is that RES is ruol baised and predictabl.  Ther is more than wa'n way tu spel a sound but only wa'n way in a givn position.  e.g., wood and would are speld the saim way.   Most ov the ruols can be found in this simpl 4x6 tabl.

RES Vowe'l Tabl - 4x6   [ 24 + vowe'l foneemes ]
 Ther ar oanly 12 puer (uncombynd) vowls (col. 1 & 2).  The rest ar combinations
 RES Positions  RES spelling depends on the position of the sound in the word
1. Initial letter of an initial syllable (alone-),    2. before a consonant,   3. at the end of a syllable,  4. unstressed syl.
Chekt  Free Diphthongs  i-u combinations with -r
- a -/æ/ aa   aa      aa i- ie      y       y  -ye ar aar |  ier ire ..yr 
AT, AL, PAT
 alms-aalms, waant=wont I, ice-iess, eye-ie, like-lyk,  MY, dy are-ar, CAR  |  ire-ier, fyr
- e - ur     er     er ay-  ai     ay air ayr er   layer
edge-ej, PET
URBAN, bird-berd, HER
ace-aiss, aybl, MAIL, faze-faiz, MAY
AIR, there-thair, swair, bair, FAIR
- i - ea     ee     e,  i-y oy- oi     oy eer ear ir  neerer
IT, pijen, PIT
EAT, neet, ME, VERY
OY-STER, BOIL, loyal-loil, BOY
EAR, teer, feer, freer, neer
- o - aw-all    au    aw o-  oa      o or awr oar   mower-morer
OX, POT ALL, awfu'l, caust, PAW obey-obay, OAT, boal, silo-sylo, folo OR, soar -sor, ore-or, four-for, flor
- oo - oo     uo     u u- ue     ue uor our ewer |  uer iur
HOOK,  poot ooz, poul, zuolu, do-du UNIT, use-uess, you-u, suit-suet poor-puor, tour-tuor |  yuor, fuery
- u  - /u'/ a'    aeiou    a-e ou-    ow our    ower
UP, uss, CUP a'go, UNDER, SOFA, pensl OUTer, house-howss, NOW, COW  OUR, flour-FLOWER,  TOWER
 consonants
THE  o'ther  tthin  witth
z    z    s
s    s    ss
pl=s, past=ed, d
us-uss,  FIESTA, o'ther
what-whaat=wot, 
zoo-zu, froze-froaz, nose-nos, does-dus, BEERS, tears-teers
SO, use-uess, deuce-dooss/duess, moose-mooss, mice-myss
 ©1999 BETA  RES words that match TO are in CAPS  RES when different than TO in blu Traditional spelling = green
 This is a table, not a grafic.  RES is not a done deal.  Ideas for improvement can be incorporated.  Join the discussion

At the current time, it is difficult to pack every feature of OGD listed below into a simple table.
There may need to be a separate table for one and multisyllable words.  The table tries to avoid this which results in an orthography that is slightly different from the one in the text samples below where a'bout is spelled abbout  and blud is spelled bloodd.   goodd food is the current model rather than good/fuod,  fued, fuid, or fuud or some other version of the checked /u/.

Logic would dictate using something other than the u grapheme for the central vowel /^/ but RES is not about logic but about trying to find a way mimic TO in a systematic way.  With /^/ redefined, gud fuud zuulu would make sense.  Chekt Speling marks all the central vowels with an apostrophe which solves two problems:  (1) how to represent the vowel in u'p (2) how to represent the schwa in a'go.  As in a'bu't and A'gin it wud be u'p tu u'ss.

Moast RES spelings ar cloass to TO or as cloass as wa'n speling patern per sound and position in a silabl a'lows.  The trik is tu avoid coad overlaps.

If this orthografy wer uesd as an ITM (initial teeching medium), the trnasition tu TO shud be simpler than with ITA sinss the stuudent wud hav lernd a'bout thre speling paterns per sound.  The transition tu TO wud be wa'n ov ading mor and mor cayotic ecseptions tu the ruuls.
 



Restored English Spelling
4x6 Vowel Table with Unigraf and OGD Notations

Front
Central
Back
High
Closed
Jaw
sit
i
index
eel sea very
E  i:
 se eel vairy
up cut 
u   ^
up cut
few
U ue
fue
hoop pool
C u: uo/u
huop puol
hook pull
c u oo
hook pool
 High
Medium
set
e
elbow
ape ace say
A  ai/ay
aip ais say
sofa acute
u  a'  r
soafa a'cuet
oilboy
Q oi/oy
oilboy
oat, note, so
O oa/o
oak, noat, so
ought loss
o au/aw
aut   lauss
 Medium
Low
Open
Jaw
sat
a
at, ax
sigh highly
I  y/ye
syt, hyly
what calm
q a/ah
wot colm
her word
R er
her werd
out owl
V ou/ow
out owl 
copper pot
q o
coper pot
  Low
air care
er air
air cair
ire fire
ier yr
ier fyr
ear deer
ir  eer ir
eer deer
are car
qr ar
ar car
our
Vr our
flour
sore/soar
or or
sor/sor
poor/pour
Cr uor
puor
pure
Ur uer
puer
error
eR
airer
liar/lyre
lyr
lyer
nearer
nir/niR
neerer
carrier
keriR
cairier
power
pVR
pouer
mower
mOR
moaer
poorer
pCR
puoer
purer
pUR
pueer

There are two important inconsistent transitions:  aur becomes or, or/aar becomes ar
A more compact (non-digraphic) and consistent notation can handle difficult words with ease.  Demons such as purer, mower, pourer become confusing in OGD.

There is no rule to get from [moat, noat] to note.  It is mostly a case of etymology.
Note came from a spelling originally pronounced naw-tuh.

How can we drop the shwa e in model [modl] and keep it in motor/moter?  mortar board (maurter board)
 

Vowel Charts not the latest
 

April, 1999 Vowel Chart.

[JR writes] This effort is eclectic. This sketch is enough like what many of you have been doing that, after mutual correction, a joint PV might be in order. That would be a big step toward an official SSS reform.

Rather than start with my description of the system, let me start with a short poem. Start by criticizing that. In my mind, at least, the spelling in it is completely regular. If you find that hard to believe, then go look at the explanation below.

In light the fact that spelling reform is about as popular as alcoholism, I am calling this scheme "Old Grand Dad" (OGD).

 Comparison of Systematic OGD with Phonemic Chekt Speling
Old Grand Dad (OGD)
The Sekend Cuming
 bye William Butler Yeats		 Chekt Speling
X Seka'nd Ku'ming
by William Butler Yeats
Terning and terning in the wydening jyr 
The falcon canot heer the falconer; 
Tthings fall appart; the senter canot hold; 
Meer anarky is loosd uppon the werld, 
The bloodd-dimd tyd is loosd, and evreewair 
the seremony ov innosenss is dround; 
The best lak all conviction, wyl the werst 
Ar ful ov pationat intensity. 

Suerly sum revelaition is at hand; 
Suerly the Sekend Cuming is at hand. 
The Sekend Cuming! Hardly ar thoas werds out 
Wen a vast imaj out ov Spiritus Mundi 
Trubels mye syt: sumwair in sands ov the dezert 
a shaip witth lyon body and the hed ov a man, 
A gais blank and pitiless as the sun, 
Is mooving its slo tthys, wyl all abbout it 
reel shadoas ov the indignent dezert birds. 
The darcness drops again; but now I no 
That twenty sentueries ov stoany sleep 
Wer vexd to nytmair bye a roking craidl, 
And wot ruf beest, its our cum round at last, 
Slouches twords Bethlehem tu be born.

 T'rning a.nd t'rning i.n x wyd'ning j'yr 
X  fa.lkn  kano.t  hir  x  fa.lka'nr 
Things fol a'part, x  sentr  kano.t  ho'ld 
Mir  a.narki  iz  lusd  u'pon  x  w'rld 
X blu'd - dimd  tyd  iz lusd, and evriwer 
X  serimoni ov inosens iz draund 
X best  la.k ol  ka'nvik5n, wyl  x  w'rst 
Ar  ful  ov  pa5'na't  intensiti 

5'rli su'm reva'lei5n iz a.t ha.nd 
5'rli  x  Seka'nd Ku'ming iz a.t ha.nd 
X Seka'nd Ku'ming! Ha.rdli ar tho'z wrdz aut 
Wen a vast imaj aut ov Spiritu's Mu'ndi 
Tru'blz my syt: sumwer in sandz ov x dez'rt 
a 5eip with l'yon bo.di and x hed ov a ma.n, 
A' geiz blank and pitiles a.z x su'n 
Iz muving itz slo' xyz, wyl ol a'baut it 
riil shado'z ov x indigna'nt dez'rt b'rdz 
X darkna's dropz a'gin; bu't nau 'I no' 
Xat twenti sentiuriez ov sto'ni sliip 
Wer vext tu nytmeir by a ro.king kreidl 
And wot ru'f bist; itz aur ku'm raund a.t la.st 
Slauchez tordz Bethlihem tu bi born
Houdy, duz this good (guid, gwd) fued cawst muny 
How du yu (ue) chuez (chooz) tu se the werld 
Wot is yur naym.  So fue ar nuezwerthy 
Sho me the way tu go hoam. Tye mye shues. 
yikes ice eyes island - yyks (yikes), iess, ies, iland 
I'll take the third aisle - Iel taik the therd iel 
the thug, thy thigh - the tthug, thye tthye 
Put-hook. (poot) the (hook) aun the wall. 
Can yu all crawl thru the small (smawl) spaiss.		 Haudi, du'z xis gu.d fud cost mu'ni 
Hau du iu chuz tu si x w'rld 
Wot iz y'r neim. So' fiu ar nuzw'rthi 
5o' mi x wei tu go' ho'm. Ty my shuz. 
y'yks, 'ys, 'yz, 'yla'nd ('ila.nd) 
'I'l ['yl] teik x th'rd ail ['yl] 
x thug, xy thy 
put x huk on x wol 
Ka.n  iu  ol crol thru x smol speis.
OGD a'part or appart, ruols/rools, luosd/loosd
seremony/serimony, revelaition/reve'laytion
chuez/chooz, naym/naim, uppon/u'pon/a'pon
innosenss/inosenss, muoving/mooving, ov/u'v		 Without positional spelling the vowel ['y] must be marked to distinguish it from the consonant [y]. When chekt speling is clipt, it is no longer phonemic (1 symbol=1 sound) but remains systematic (no ambiguity-1 symbol per position).

under construction
A TABLE OF FORMS USED BY OLD GRAND DAD (OGD)

General Principles:

OGD uses phonetic devises that, with one exception, exist in TO.

OGD seeks to be absolutely unambiguous for readers and reasonably unambiguous for spellers.

OGD uses positional spelling, with slightly different forms for monosyllables and polysyllables.

OGD treats a small class of syllables as whole units.

Transcription Strategy

OGD defers to TO when the TO spelling produces a recognizable word. This means that many
unstressed vowels are simply imported. The schwa therefore has no unique expression, but is most
often a "short e." [SB] This is just because it is found in [the] and in [er] endings. Without these to inflate the count, the most common way to express the lax central vowel called schwa would be [a].


 
 Consonants

Single Consonants


bdfghjlmnpqrtvwxz are too tedious to discuss. Note that X and Q are retained with their traditional
values.

C is hard. It is used for that sound initially and medially. K is used (1) at the end of words and (2)
before I, E or Y. [kid, keep, kyt]  There is one exception: See IC under "Special Combinations."

S when final is pronounced /z/ or /s/, depending on whether the preceding sound is voiced or unvoiced.
(This simply generalizes the TO rule for plurals and possessives.)  dogs/dogz   cats/cats
Chart of voiced/unvoiced consonants.

The regular past is formed by adding a "D." As in TO, its value as /d/ or /t/ depends on the preceding
sound. [eg] speld may be pronounced /spelt/

A final L before any consonant but R is a syllable, as in [TO "able" > OGD "abl"]

Y is a consonant when used initially.  (could be initially in a syllable:  bilyard, milyunair).

**Double Consonants**

CH is as in "church"

TH is as in "the"

SH is as in "she"

SS is used only finally, to indicate an unambiguous /s/  this=this(s)? reduce=reduess, redos=redues
ice=iess, eyes=ies  [SB] I think it is simpler tu just use [z = /z/].  Forget about morphemes.

Doubled Consonants and Vowels: See "Polysyllables, Initial Vowels," and "Special Combinations."

**Triple Consonants**

TTH = "th" as in [TO "theory" > OGD "ttheory"] Don't blame me, blame the Normans for
conquering England without learning the Anglo-Saxon alphabet. (The eth  [ð] symbol would be helpful here)
(Latin 1)
 
 
  Vowels

OGD Restored English reveels the baisic systematic coad for spelling.  It is eezy tu reed and foolly predictabl in its speling. U shooddnt pooll the wuull over yoor ies. It is eazy tu reed and fuuly predictabl in its speling.  Y shuudnt puul the wuul over yur ies.
 
 



Old Grand Dad
OGD - Positional Spelling
initial - medial - terminal graphemes
alone in syllable alimony- before a consonant eal- after a consonant neel - in an unstressed syl very


 










C
The terminal position applies both to words and syllables.  Thus, a rhymes with up, not at.
Example: Giv me a'nother jyro for my groovy frend.  It is a little difficult to grasp the idea that the a and y are terminals when they appear at the beginning and middle of a word. They are terminals because they are the last letter in a syllable. The puer man tookk a toor in a fuery wearing a fery tu'rba'n.

"All-tho aw-ful we all (awl) stayd with the raydio with the bad audio un-til a-nother becaym a-vailabl."
[awl] becomes [all] when in a stand alone syllable ending in L.  The tool ov choiss wos an all.
==========================Polysyllables========================

Initial Vowels

A, E, I, O, U have their name values before single consonants, and their traditional "short" values
before doubled consonants.

[SB]  at=ate?, etch=each? rot=rote?  (rewrite the rule)

[SB] Single syllables retain their name values:  I, Iland, O (oh), U (yu), A (/ei/ or @)
Name values are also retained when the vowel is the last sound in a syllable.
E.G. revolution = revolution not revoluetion as above. Do we need the e marker?
I think this can be stated in a simpler way

The combination "OO" can, when necessary, be used as in "oops." (Are there other examples?)

[SB] "oops" can ryme with "ooze" - an overlap here is not a serious problem. The initial /u:/ or /u/ is
extremely rare in English.  Foreign words:  Uberlandia would not be changed to Ooberlandia.

Vowels used before "th" or "tth" are treated like initial vowels in monosyllables; see below.

[SB] I would recommend [a'] for the initial schwa sound as in ago and appart to distinguish it from /ae/
since /ae/ is checked, it does not appear in the terminal position (see chart) thus sofa does not have to be marked.
 

Medial Vowels

A, E, I, O, U have their traditional "short" values when in isolation. When  A, E, O, U come first in
combinations that are not diphthongs (e.g. "going"), they have their name values. The second letter
is short. "I," when used first in such a combination, is a glide.

AI is as in "repair." (A troublesome one, I know, but that is a matter of accent.)

AU is as in "haunted."

EE is as in "meeting."

OA is as in "coattails."

OI is as in "enjoin."

OO is as in "food."

OU is as in "outer."

UE has the name value of  U. [TO "dispute" > OGD "dispuet"]

Y is as in "hyper."
 

Final Vowels

AW is as in "heehaw."

AY is as in "display."

E, O have their name values.

OY is as in "enjoy."

OW is as in "endow."

U is has the value of initial and medial OO [TO bamboo > OGD bambu]

UE has the name value of U, as in "continue." [SB] ambiguous- sometimes iu, other times oo
news=nues, renews=renues, noose=nuess, fuse=fues

Y is as in "shifty."  ["fly highly"  flye hyly]

YE is as in [TO "signify" > OGD "signifye"]

=======================Monosyllables=======================

**Initial Vowels Only**

EA is as in "eat."

IE is as in [TO "ice" > OGD "iess"] Ugly, I know.  [also yieks instead of yyks] [eyes=ies]
 

**Initial and Medial Vowels**

A, E, I, O, U in isolation have their traditional short values.

AU is as in "auk." [Kiwis, I know this will be a problem.]

OA is as in "oat."

OI is as in "oil."

OU is as in "out."

UE is as in [TO "fuse" > TO "fues"]

**Final Vowels**

A has an indefinite sound, as in "rumba."

AW is as in "jaw."

E, O have their name values.

U is as in "flu."

YE is as in "rye."

 
Special Combinations

AL is as in "pal."  pale=pail

ALL is as in "all."  [otherwise awl]

AR is as in "ark." [otherwise aark]   AR [aark = ark]

ARR is as in "harry."  [otherwise <hairy>]   double R [arr=air]

IC (terminal only) is as in "sonic."  [otherwise sonik]

IES is the regular plural of polysyllables ending in Y, as "sentries."  [otherwiese sentrees]

ING is as in both "singer" and "finger." Singgers from Longg Island must go unmarked.

OL is as in "hold."   [otherwise hoald]

OLL is as in "jolly" and "follow."  [otherwise the  joly, folo]?

OO followed by a double consonant is as in [TO "good" > OGD "goodd"]. [TO "put" = OGD "putt"]
Better to consistently used w for /u/ and oo for /u:/   gwd food  Already use ue for /u:/
Thuse good food could be good fued.  feud=fiud.
Yes, I know the solution is four letters long. Like the Volvo, it's boxy but goodd. [prefer gwd, pwt and twoards]

OR is as in "or"  [otherwise aur]

YIE (initial only) is as in [TO "yikes" > OGD "yieks"] The form "yyks" is thus impossible.
      [SB] what is wrong with yyks and hyk.  It is clearer than the overlap with the ies plural ending [eez].
 
 
 
Special Syllables

COM--, CON--, --TIAL--, --TION--, --SUER-- [TO "pressure" > OGD "presuer"],

--ZUER-- [TO "pleasure" > "plezuer"]

[SB] What about repeat (otherwise ripeet)?

RE (pronounced ri or r@ in multisylable words) is spelled <re> repeat, reduce (redues)(same as reduos)

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So now you can read English. Shouldn't everybody?
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Comment by John Reilly:

OGD notation is not the standard phonemic solution because each sound can be
spelled more
than one way depending on its position in the word or syllable. There are
FIVE possible spellings:
Stand alone (i), initially in all words iess (ice), ies (eyes), medially
(hyt = height) and terminally
in polysyllables (defy = defye) and monosyllables (my).

Please note that a key feature of OGD is the existence of special
combinations that are, in
effect, extra letters. Two of these incorporate the traditional letter Y,
ie, -oy and -ay, both
of which occur only finally.
“Thus the U in un-tye and u-nity refer to different sounds.”
Let us drop the doubled consonant business outside the special combinations.
UNTIE still
equals UNTYE, but UNITY would be UENITY.

Free vowels must be distinguished from checked vowels only when free vowels
are followed by
consonants.

OGD Vowel Table - 4x6 [ 24 + vowel phonemes ]
OGD Positions OGD spelling depends on the position of the sound in the word
1. Initial letter of an initial syllable (-alone), , 2. before a consonant,
3. at the end of word or syllable

Chekt Free  Diphthongs i-u combinations with -r
- a -/æ/ aa aa aa i- ie y ye ar aar | iyr yr ire
AT, AL, PAT      alms-aalms, waant-wont ice-iess, eye-ie, like-lyk, MY = MY
are-ar, CAR | ire = IER,

- e - ur er er AI- ai ay air ayr er layer
edge-ej, PET URBAN, bird-berd, HER ace-aiss, aybl, MAIL, faze-faiz, MAY AIR,
there-thair,
swair, bair, FAIR
- i - ea ee e, i-y oy- oi oy eer ear ir neerer
IT, pijen, PIT eat, neet, ME, VERY OI-STER, BOIL, loyal-loil, BOY ear-eer,
feer, freer {?},
neer
- o - aw- au au aw oa oa o or awr oar mower-morer [ALL is a special
combination, used
only to express a following L]
OX, POT ALL, awfu'l, caust, PAW obey-obay, OAT, BOL, silo-sylo, folo OR,
soar -sor,
ore-or, four-for, flor
- UO - UO UO u
hook- UOZ, PUOL, zoolu, do-du UENIT, use-uess, you-u, suit-SOOT [I don’t say
that word with a glide
follwoing the S]  pour-POR, tour-toor | your-YOR, FUERY
- u - a' aeiou a-e - ou ow our
UP, CUP, put a'go, UNDER, SOFA, pensl OUTer, house-houss, NOW, COW  OUR,
FLOUR,
flower-flour, tower-tour
consonants THE o'ther tthin witth z z s s s ss
pl=s, past= -D, -ed us-uss, sofa, fiesta, o'ther
what-whaat-wot,  zoo-zu, froze-FROAS, nose-noas, does-dus, BEERS,
tears-teers SO, use-uess,
deuce-dooss/duess, moose-mooss, mice-myss
©1999 BETA OGD words that match TO are in caps OGD when different than TO in
blu Traditional
spelling = green
 

Problems:
Schwa spelling is not fully predictable. Can be any vowel letter.
Prefer to mark any vowel used to refer to the schwa sound but for familiar
letters this is
not required.
the' = /dha'/ = the
Not sure how to use the W in mower and tower [MOAR.& TOUR]
Tung twisters
use us under the unit usually. ues u's u'nde'r the u-nit uesually. ues us
undr the unit
uesually. [UESS, USS, UNDR, UENIT, USUELY

zulu/zoolu could be zuelu [ZOOLU]
pure tour of the poor flour tower. puer toor ov the poor flour tour.
I put a layer cake in the dragon's lair. I poot a layer caik in the dragons
lair.
I wo'n wun wunss and wa's wunss a fyna'list. [FYNELIST]
one done gone alone wun dun gaun [GON] a'loan
do does doesn't doe bow du dus duzn't do bo [bou]
eggs, legs, college aged egs, legs, colej [COLLAJ] aijd ??
they say grade grayed aged thay say graid grayd aijed
what hot why white sigh wot hot [WY WYT SY]
see me on the whale se me ON the [WAIL] (wail).

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English needs 18 additional characters.  These sounds are handled in TO and OGD with 2-letter combinations or digraphs.
 
  
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